Notes:
counsel 助言する;
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I work for a public school in Tokyo. Before that, I worked for several different companies for many years. I wanted to be an English teacher, but teaching English is only 10% of my job. At school, we have to do a lot of paperwork. We also have to counsel students and give them guidance. We often have to talk to their parents, too. Since the parents can only come to school after work, we have to stay late. There is not a lot of money for education in Japan, so there aren’t enough teachers or other staff. These are the reasons why homeroom teachers cannot leave school earlier. (by a reader)
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Notes:
astronaut 宇宙飛行士;
paper spring 紙バネ;
wire top 針金ゴマ
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On Sunday, Kanai Norishige became the 12th Japanese astronaut to go up into space. He went up in a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan. Two other astronauts joined him, Anton Shkaplerov of Russia and Scott Tingle of the U.S.A. They are all heading to the International Space Station and will get there sometime today. This time, Kanai will do two experiments that were designed by high school students. One is to see how a paper spring works in almost zero gravity. The other is to see how a wire top spins. I hope they will take a video and show us what happens later! (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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